Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM

(Advisory Board Member) Sheri Colberg, PhD, also known as Sheri Colberg-Ochs, is an author, exercise physiologist, and professor emerita of exercise science at Old Dominion University and a former adjunct professor of internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, both in Norfolk, Virginia. Having earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, she has specialized in research on diabetes and exercise and healthy lifestyles and shaped physical activity recommendations for professional organizations, including the American College of Sports Medicine, American Diabetes Association, and American Association of Diabetes Educators. She has authored 11 books, along with 24 book chapters and more than 300 articles on physical activity, diabetes, healthy lifestyles, and aging. In addition to her educational website, Diabetes Motion (www.diabetesmotion.com), she is also the founder of an academy for fitness and other professionals seeking continuing education enabling them to effectively work with people with diabetes and exercise: Diabetes Motion Academy (www.dmacademy.com). These and her own website (www.shericolberg.com) offer additional information about being active with diabetes. She is the 2016 recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award.

Effective Dietary Practices of Active People with Diabetes: Part 4 (Importance of Protein and Fat) By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Fat: Used Some But Not as Much as Carbohydrate Both the fat stored in your muscles (i.e., intramuscular triglycerides) and circulating around in your blood (free …

Lead investigator Sheri R. Colberg, found that 1 hour of aerobic exercise has a minimal impact on plasma glucose level when performed in fasted moderately hyperglycemic Type 2 diabetic men, but induces an important decrease in plasma glucose level when performed 2 hours after the meal.

Effective Dietary Practices of Active People with Diabetes: Part 2 (Supplementing with Carbohydrates) By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Supplementing with Carbohydrate Before, During, and After Exercise Carbohydrate supplementation is an effective performance enhancer whether or not you have diabetes. In general, taking in extra carbohydrate is not usually necessary for …

By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D.,FACSM As a physically active person, you arelikely to be bombarded with claims about the superiority ofparticular diets and guarantees that specific nutritional supplementswill enhance your athletic performance. With the fierce competitionthat exists in sports nowadays, athletes look for any edge to improvetheir athletic ability. They will …

Over the past few weeks, Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has focused on insulin and oral medications and their relationship to exercise and many of you asked about Byetta and Symlin. This week she covers them in Diabetic Medications and Exercise, Part 2: Use of Byetta and Symlin.

Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has been helping patients with diabetes successfully increase physical activity for many years and has written numerous books that patients and clinicians use. Most of her work recently has been about insulin and exercise, but many of you have written me to ask, “What about oral …

When Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, spoke about insulin and exercise last time the focus was on long acting insulin and exercise. This week she continues with Insulin Use and Exercise, Part 3: Insulin Pumps.

When you don’t have diabetes and you start any activity, your body increases the release of glucose-raising hormones to prevent falls in your blood glucose levels. At the same time, your pancreas releases less insulin during exercise. But what about your patients who have diabetes? Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, discusses …

If your patients are female, past puberty, and still young enough to be menstruating, then you’ll want to read what Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has to say in this week’s feature; Being Female and Athletic: Special Concerns for Diabetic Women Only.